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to dislodge it by pouring small quantities of oil or melted 

 lard, not hot, down the throat, and having failed in all, 

 the probang should be used, or in its stead, a strong flex- 

 ible cane or rattan, maybe tried; but care should be taken 

 to have the cane go down the right passage. If coughing 

 is set up on the introduction of the cane, have it with- 

 drawn as it has entered the air passages, but try till it 

 has been properly entered down to the obstruction. With 

 patience and perseverance the difficulty will usually be 

 overcome. Still, however, there are cases which require 

 the gullet to be opened over the place of obstruction, a 

 safe operation requiring only a simple cut through the 

 skin and outer surface of the gullet, which will readily 

 heal without much trouble, by bringing the lips of the 

 wound together, a stitch or two with strong, but small 

 twine or saddler's silk, by means of a small packing 

 needle. Feed the cow or ox, for a week or more, upon soft 

 or prepared food till the wound has healed. Cows or oxen 

 remaining long in a choked condition, the throat is apt to 

 swell from the accumulation of gas in the first stomach, 

 which will have to be treated as for hoven or tympanitis, 

 occurring from eating clover or rank and wet grass. — 

 (See Hoven.) 



' Colic. — Colic in cattle is rarely seen as it is in the 

 horse, but occurs in the form of hoven. — (Which see.) 



Consumption. — This disease is not so common in 

 domestic animals as in the human family, nor is it as 

 frequent in any of the animals as it is in the milch cow. 

 Consumption in cows is usually exhibited in the tuber- 

 cular form. These tubercles are from the size of the 

 pin head to that of a hickory nut, flattened, oval and 

 round, and are not confined to the lungs, but they are 



